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oapen-20.500.12657-258032022-04-26T12:19:39Z Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece Gaskill, Howard Friedrich Hölderlin novel Hyperion fictional epistolary autobiography European Romanticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FC Classic fiction (pre c 1945) bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FQ Myth & legend told as fiction "Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the narrator undergoes a transformation that culminates in the realisation of his true vocation. Though Hölderlin is now established as a great lyric poet, recognition of his novel as a supreme achievement of European Romanticism has been belated in the Anglophone world. Incorporating the aesthetic evangelism that is a characteristic feature of the age, Hyperion preaches a message of redemption through beauty. The resolution of the contradictions and antinomies raised in the novel is found in the act of articulation itself. To a degree remarkable in a prose work of any length, what it means is inseparable from how it means. In this skilful translation, Gaskill conveys the beautiful music and rhythms of Hölderlin’s language to an English-speaking reader." 2019-03-06 15:14:42 2020-04-01T10:49:52Z 2020-04-01T10:49:52Z 2019 book 1004286 OCN: 1089990788 2054-216X/2054-2178;2054-216X/2054-216X;2514- 9781783746552 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25803 eng Open Book Classics application/pdf n/a 9781783746576.pdf Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0160 10.11647/OBP.0160 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781783746552 ScholarLed 234 open access
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"Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the narrator undergoes a transformation that culminates in the realisation of his true vocation.
Though Hölderlin is now established as a great lyric poet, recognition of his novel as a supreme achievement of European Romanticism has been belated in the Anglophone world. Incorporating the aesthetic evangelism that is a characteristic feature of the age, Hyperion preaches a message of redemption through beauty. The resolution of the contradictions and antinomies raised in the novel is found in the act of articulation itself. To a degree remarkable in a prose work of any length, what it means is inseparable from how it means. In this skilful translation, Gaskill conveys the beautiful music and rhythms of Hölderlin’s language to an English-speaking reader."
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